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TEMPORARY BINDER.

APPLICATION FxLED AUGJ, 1914.

Patented June 29) 1915.

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JOSEPH M. TOVTNE, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

TEMPORARY BINDER.

Specieatn of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 29, 1915.

Application filed August 7, 1914. Serial No. 855,625.

T0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JosnrH M. TowNn, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Orange, Essex county, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and uSerIhis invention relates to certain new andf useful improvements in binders for magazines, periodicals, pamphlets, or telephone directories, and books of the same general character, and the primary object of the invention is to provide a binder in which a plurality of binder members are employed, which members are connected so as to be capable of expansion and contraction to thus be easily and quickly applied to and removed from the back structure and from the magazines or pamphlets which are to be secured to the back.

A further object of the invention is to provide a binder which can be adapted to thick or thin magazines and pamphlets and the like.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a view, partly in side elevation and partly in section of the present invention; Fig. 2 is a top plan view; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. l; Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. l of Va slightly modified form of the invention; Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is a -view similar to Fig. 1 of a further modified form of the invention; Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of one of the slotted end posts; Fig. 8 is a side elevation of a modified form of the pivoted binding members; Fig. 9 is a view similar to Fig. 8 of a further modified form of pivoted binding members; Figs. 10 and 11 are side elevations of still further modiiied forms of the invention; Fig. 12 is a top plan view of another modified form of the invention; Fig. 18 is a section on the line 13-13 of Fig. 12; Fig. 14 is a section on the line 14-14 of Fig. 12; and Fig. 15is a perspective view of still another modified form of the invention.

The primary or essential feature of the present invention, resides in a plurality of members engageable with the magazine or the like, and pivotally or otherwise connected, so as to be capable of expansive and contractile movement so as to be engaged with and disengaged from a plurality of stationary points on a back structure.

In the present embodiment of the invention, a pair of metal members 1 of striplike form are employed to illustrate one manner in which the invention can be carried into practice, the members 1 being pivotally connected at 2 and locked against pivotal movement by a pin or stud 3 carried by one of the members and engageable in and disengageable from an aperture 4 formed in the other member, by flexure of the members, the members being formed of thin metal so as to allow the flexing thereof for the purpose indicated.

The back structure generally designated 5.

`may be of any preferred or desired structure, and is provided with spaced end posts or keepers 6 which in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 are made of sheet metal, bent to form bases or feet 7 which are rigidly secured by suitablefastening `means to the back 5, and abutments or right angular end walls 8, which latter are slotted at 9.

As depicted in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the slots are located at varying distances from the back 5 for the purpose of accommodating magazines that may be bound very close to or at a distance from the edge of the back. In this form of the invention, the ends of the members l are alined with the slots 9 when the members are in the contracted dotted line position shown in Fig. 1, after which the members are expanded, the act of expansion causing the ends of the members to pass through the slots 9 into the full line position shown in said Fig. 1. It will of course be understood that the members l are first engaged between the leaves of the magazine, at the center of the latter and adjacent to the bound edge thereof, the binding of the magazine being indicated as stapling S in Fig.. 1.

In Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings, a modified structure of keeper 6n is shown in which no slots whatever are employed. In this form of the invention, the keepers are provided with overhanging ledges 10 which engage and prevent outward movement of the ends of the members 1fL by virtue of the latter engaging beneath or under the ledges. The members la, can thus be shifted freely and at will from endY to end of the keepers, end flanges 11 being formed on the ledges to engage the ends of the members 1a so as to prevent the latter from being completely".v

and laterally moved out of the keepers.

In cases where it is desired to have the keepers of slight depth or thickness and large or thick books are to be bound,- then the position shown in Fig. 10have their lingers 13engaged in the slots of keepers G tohold large books, or by reversing the lingers 13a on members 1 as shown in Fig. 11, the wider fingers 13a may beplacedinfthe slots to hold relatively thin books.

In Figs. 12, 13 and la, the keepers 4are in the form of cross-rods 14 which are provided with a series of annular spaced grooves 15 adapted to receive the U-shaped jaws 1G formed directly at and on the ends of the members 1d. This form of the invention is also applicable to use as a follower in bill files and the like as indicated atl?, in

Fig. 15, in which the rods lli act as posts which extend at right angles to the base board of the bill file andk which pass through' perforations formed in the bills for Jtheir reception. v

It will be understood that the number of Y the slots or grooves which receive the ends of the binding members may be increased as desired, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

From the above it will be apparent that the principle of the invention remains the same in each form ofthe invention dis# closed, namely, the eXpansible `and con-v tractile binding elements are engageable between and disengageable from between two relatively stationary points, posts, or abutments, which elements when expanded engage the abutments or posts Vand retain the magazine or the like, or bills in stationary relation thereto.

What is claimed is .1. In combination with a pair of spaced stationary keepers, a pair of overlapping pivotally connected thin metal strips formed to engage the keepers at their outer ends and being engageable with and disengageable 'from the keepers by expansion and contraction of the strips, a stud on one strip and the other strip having an aperture to receive the stud so as to hold the strips locked against eXpansion and contraction.

2. In a loose leaf binder, in combination with a pair of keepers, a pair of pivotally connected iexible strips `having means to engage the keepers, and means to lock said stripsV against pi'votalmovement, said means being engageable and disengageable by flexure of said strips.

3. In aleose leaf binder, in combination with a pair of keepers', a pair of strips adapted Iat their ends to engagesaid keepers, means to connectthe-strips r to permit eX-` pansion and contraction thereof, and means borne by the strips to lock the, strips'against contr-action operable by lateral movement of the strips.

4. In a-looseleaf binder, a pair of iieXible strips, a `pair of keepers, said strips being adapted attheir ends to engage saidkeepers, means tofconnect thestrips to permit eX- pansion and contraction'thereof, and means to vlockthe rstrips against contraction operable by'fflexure of the strips. v

5. 'In a loose'leaf binder, a pair of flexible strips, a pair of keepers, said -strips being adapted at their ends to engage said keepers,y means to connect thev strips to permit eX- pansion and contraction thereof, and means to lock lthe strips against contraction operable by flexure of the strips, said strips being thin so as to beinsertible between the leaves of a book and the book acting to prevent accidental flexure of the strips.

"6. In a loose leaf binder,\in `combination with a pair of keepers, a pairy of strips adapted -at their'endsto engagesaid keepers, means -to connect thestrips to permit expansion and' contraction thereof, and 100 means rigidly borne by one of the strips and receivable in asocket provided therefor in the other strip to `lock the strips against contraction.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 105 in presence of two witnesses. y v

JOSEPH M. TOWNE.

`Witnesses:

WILLIAMJ. DONNELLY,

WM. B. CAnswELL.

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